Church of St Giles
CHURCH OF ST GILES, CAMBERWELL CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1378398
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Giles
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST GILES, CAMBERWELL CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1378398
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Giles
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST GILES, CAMBERWELL CHURCH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST GILES, CAMBERWELL CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Southwark (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 32965 76633
Details
SOUTHWARK
TQ3276 CAMBERWELL CHURCH STREET 636-1/11/126 (South side) 30/06/54 Church of St Giles
GV II*
Church. 1842-44. By Scott & Moffat, architects. Coursed grey Kentish regstone with white ashlar dressings; copper roof. STYLE: Middle Pointed. PLAN: cruciform plan with plate tracery and bold broached spire rising over crossing between nave, long chancel and gabled transepts. EXTERIOR: nave with clerestory and lower aisles of 5 bays with gabled entrance porches in 2nd bay from end on both sides. Chancel of 3 bays. Windows to north and south are pointed double lancets beneath a foil between stepped buttresses. Stepped angle buttresses to outer corners. Heavily detailed tower of 2 stages, the lower of blank arcading, the upper with paired, 2-light bell openings. Octagonal spire above. INTERIOR: has arch braced roof; lierne vault at crossing and very high tower arches. Alternately round and octagonal piers with foliated capitals to nave. In the chancel is retained the C14 sedilia and piscina from the former church. South transept as Lady Chapel, north as organ chamber. STAINED GLASS: in the large east window by Ward & Nixon to designs by Ruskin and Oldfield; in chancel remains by Lavers & Barraud. Transepts have glass by Comper to replace 2 Morris windows destroyed in War. West window by Ward & Nixon incorporates some C13 pieces. Undercroft of 5 barrel-vaulted brick aisles. Church built to replace medieval church which was destroyed by fire in 1841. (Howell P: Victorian Churches: London: 1989-: 81).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470699
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Howell, P, Victorian Churches, (1989), 81
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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